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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Paperback). The launch of the First Crusade in 1095 and its capture of Jerusalem four year later is described, along with the subsequent expeditions to the Holy Land up to 1271. Title: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Further DetailsTitle: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0198829302 EAN: 9780198829300 Contributor: Jonathan Harris (Edited by) ISBN: 9780198829300 Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 02/26/2026 Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Topic: History, Military History, Law & Politics Description: A beautifully illustrated and accessible account of the medieval crusades.The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades provides an accessible introduction to the medieval crusades and to the changes and developments that have taken place in their study over the last twenty-five years. Written by fifteen experts in the field, it opens with the nature of western European society in the eleventh century that gave rise to the holy war ethos, where the Church promoted violence against the perceived enemies of the faith not as a distasteful necessity in a fallen world but as a meritorious act which attracted a spiritual reward. The launch of the First Crusade in 1095 and its capture of Jerusalem four year later is described, along with the subsequent expeditions to the Holy Land up to 1271. Later chapters focus on some of the less well-known aspects. These include the reaction in the Islamic world to the crusades; the impact on the Jewish communities of western Europe; the perspective from the Byzantine empire; the crusades launched against Christians, whether Orthodox Byzantines or Hussite and Albigensian heretics; the literature and songs to which the crusades gave rise and the physical monuments that can still be seen today. Crusading continued long after the fall of Acre, the last outpost in the Holy Land, in 1291, becoming increasingly defensive in the face of the expansion of the Ottoman empire, although Christian forays into Africa and the Americas in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were still regarded as crusades. Even in the nineteenth century, crusades were looked back on as a model for contemporary European imperialism. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 245mm Item Length: 189mm Item Width: 21mm Item Weight: 1008g Series: Oxford Illustrated History Release Year: 2026 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
